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Friday, July 11, 2025

Practice match rained out

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Ryan Bachoo
1647 days ago
20210107
Red Force frontline bowler Ravi Rampaul playing for the Kieron Pollard XI in action during Monday’s fifth ODI practice match against the Yannic Cariah XI, while batmsn Kjorn Ottley looks on. Rampaul took one for 27 of seven overs at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain, Couva.

Red Force frontline bowler Ravi Rampaul playing for the Kieron Pollard XI in action during Monday’s fifth ODI practice match against the Yannic Cariah XI, while batmsn Kjorn Ottley looks on. Rampaul took one for 27 of seven overs at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain, Couva.

ANTHONY HARRIS

Rain washed out the T&T Red Force’s prac­tice match on Wednes­day at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va with­out a ball be­ing bowled. In­stead, the squad was forced to re­treat to the in­door prac­tice nets for a ses­sion.

They will try again on Fri­day at the same venue in which an­oth­er prac­tice match is sched­uled from 9:30 am. With rough­ly a month to go to the tour­na­ment, head coach David Fur­longe bad­ly needs some time out in the mid­dle as play­ers stake their claim for one of the 15 po­si­tions on the squad.

With COVID-19 re­stric­tions al­so lim­it­ing train­ing, Khary Pierre is hop­ing that his ex­pe­ri­ence in the 2020 Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) will serve him well go­ing in­to this tour­na­ment. Hav­ing been part of the bio-se­cure bub­ble last year with the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers, Pierre told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Wednes­day, “Just like CPL, a lot of tour­na­ments around the world has been af­fect­ed by the pan­dem­ic so as pro­fes­sion­al crick­eters we need to go out there and just fo­cus on play­ing crick­et.”

With a packed home sea­son of crick­et lined up for 2021 with Guardian Me­dia Sports re­port­ing that Sri Lan­ka, South Africa, Pak­istan and Aus­tralia are set to tour the Caribbean, the Parkite is aim­ing to push his way back in­to the West In­dies set-up hav­ing played three One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODI) and 10 T20 In­ter­na­tion­als. “That is my main aim to get back on the West In­dies team. I just want to go out there and make my per­for­mances do the talk­ing,” the left-arm-spin­ner said.

He’s been rel­ish­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty to train with se­nior West In­dies play­ers such as Kieron Pol­lard, Dar­ren Bra­vo and for­mer West In­dies ODI cap­tain Dwayne Bra­vo who has been around the train­ing ses­sions. “It’s al­ways good to mix the ex­pe­ri­ence with the youth. Gen­er­al­ly, we have a good team. It’s just for the boys to go out there, play as a unit and bring it home,” he said.

Pierre’s fel­low Parkites Kirstan Kallicha­ran has al­so been en­joy­ing train­ing with the se­nior play­ers. The 21-year-old doesn’t ex­pect to make the fi­nal squad that will fly to An­tigua for the tour­na­ment, but he’s been us­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty to grow his own game. He said, “All the guys are back home so it’s a lot hard­er for me to have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to play but I’m still sat­is­fied and hap­py to be part of the train­ing camp and go­ing for­ward I can learn some­thing from them.”

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Mean­while, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) John­ny Grave con­firmed on the Ma­son and Guest Show on the Voice of Bar­ba­dos pro­gramme on Tues­day that the board is look­ing to host two rounds of the first-class tour­na­ment af­ter East­er.

The Eng­lish­man said they are hop­ing that Bar­ba­dos and T&T will be the hosts of the tour­na­ment with the sec­ond round be­ing played here at home. He said, “As soon as we make a bit more progress with the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion and the Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment and the T&T Crick­et Board and the T&T gov­ern­ment we’ll be in a po­si­tion to an­nounce that [the fix­tures] but we’re ob­vi­ous­ly liv­ing and work­ing in un­prece­dent­ed times with huge un­cer­tain­ty so this is till best-case sce­nar­ios and sub­ject to every­thing.”


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